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1206564626633666494sarxos_Magnifying_Glass_svg_med.pngVOCABULARY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY DIGITALLY LITERATE STUDENT



Library Spot (computer dictionaries)) - Devry's Technology Terms - Matisse's Glossary - Webopedia - Znet

  1. aggregate-to gather, collect or assemble.
  2. blog-"A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog." ( "Blog." http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html)
  3. blogroll- "Found on blogs it is a list of links to other blogs and Web sites that the blog author commonly references or is affiliated with. Blogrolls help blog authors to establish and build upon a their blogger community. ("What is blogroll?" Webopedia. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/blogroll.html. 8 Aug 2009.
  4. digital natives
  5. file sharing
  6. folksonomy- How the community of users organize web sites based on tags that they create instead of by a professional taxonomy of organization.
  7. forum:
  8. hypertext mark-up language (html): a markup language used on the World Wide Web to design web pages.
  9. links (hyperlinks):
  10. linklogs
  11. Mash-Ups: View a You Tube visual explanation by Znet about mash-ups.
  12. Netiquette
  13. Open source
  14. Phishing: Requesting confidential information over the internet under false pretenses in order to obtain personal information.
  15. Playlist: a list of audio files arranged in the order they are to be played
  16. Personal Learning Network (PLN):
  17. Podcast: Audio files broadcast over the internet available to be downloaded and played by a digital audio player.
  18. Read/Write
  19. RSS feeds-"(Really Simple Syndication) Asyndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites." (ZDnet Definition for RSS)
  20. Social bookmarking-Ranking a Web site by users who like the content rather than by the total number of links to the site. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.uslet users tag their favorite sites with key words and post them for others to see. (TechEncylopedia)
  21. Social media tools: blogging, micro-blogging, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, social networking, file sharing, communication and collaboration tools (online).
  22. social networking
  23. Tags. See also tagging
  24. Texting
  25. URL (tiny URL):
  26. Web 2.0
  27. Weblogs
  28. Widgets
  29. Wikis

1206564626633666494sarxos_Magnifying_Glass_svg_med.pngACRONYMS


HTML- Hypertext markup language
PHP
RIA
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
URL - Uniform Resource Locator